Catalog Maintenance

Catalog maintenance refers to the ongoing tasks of correcting and improving catalog records in OWWL so that public and staff users of the catalog can efficiently and effectivly find and identify items in the catalog. Users will have the information they need about an item to make a decision as to whether it is what they want or need. The request form below can be used to submit information to PLSHQ cataloging staff.

Catalog Clean Up

Despite our on-going best efforts, there are duplicate records that can be merged, as well as records that lack information, or don't conform to standard MARC cataloging practices.

In order to improve our catalog so that it is accurate and patron-friendly, we rely on PLS members to report catalog record errors and omissions.

Examples of errors to report:

Spelling

Missing information

ISBN - when different editions (paperback, hard cover, book club) share the same record, or an item now has a 13-digit ISBN